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  1. Louise Hanson-Dyer: Some Personal Reflections

    by Kerry Murphy Australian-born music patron and publisher Louise Hanson-Dyer settled in France in 1928 and in 1931 founded the music publishing house Les Editions de …

    lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au/2023/12/13/louise-hanson-dyer-some-personal-reflections

  2. Barry Conyngham talks about being interviewed

    The composer Barry Conyngham wrote the foreword for Lyrebird’s latest book, Take Note: Interviews with Australian Composers, edited by Madeline Roycroft. At the launch of the …

    lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au/2022/03/17/barry-conyngham-talks-about-being-interviewed

  3. 30 years of Context

    This year is the thirtieth anniversary of the foundation of Context: A Journal of Melbourne Music Postgraduates. Congratulations to everyone involved! Initially proposed by Michael Christoforidis, …

    lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au/2021/09/02/30-years-of-context

  4. New publications by Lyrebird authors

    New books and chapters in books by Lyrebird authors: Akhurst, Graham, and Katelyn Barney. “Articulating My Own Black History: Success and Inhibiting Factors in an Aboriginal …

    lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au/2021/08/04/new-publications-by-lyrebird-authors

  5. More on the Marshall-Hall scandals

    As if the life of the Melbourne conductor and composer G.W.L. Marshall-Hall (1862–1915) was not already noteworthy for its scandals, new revelations about his personal life …

    lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au/2021/07/28/more-on-the-marshall-hall-scandals

  6. New history of music at St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne

    Ian Burk, author of “Goodbye ’til next time”: A Critical Biography of A.E. Floyd (Lyrebird, 2012) has recently published The Winds of Change: The Music at …

    lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au/2021/06/16/new-history-of-music-at-st-pauls-cathedral-in-melbourne

  7. Dorrit Black

    The cover of John Whiteoak’s book Take Me to Spain is by the South Australian artist Dorrit Black (1891–1951). Having studied at art schools in Adelaide …

    lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au/2021/01/13/dorrit-black

  8. Vale Roger Covell

    Among the obituaries for Roger Covell, the eminent academic and critic, is the one in the Sydney Morning Herald, the paper that employed him for four …

    lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au/2021/01/13/vale-roger-covell